Synonyms: touch, feel, sense of touch, tactile sense, tactility, contact, using one's hands, sensation, sense, suspicion, sneaking suspicion, notion, inkling, hunch, fancy, apprehension, presentiment, premonition, foreboding, love, care, affection, fondness, tenderness, warmth, warmness, emotion, sentiment, emotional state, compassion, sympathy, empathy, fellow feeling, understanding, concern, solicitude, solicitousness, tender-heartedness, brotherly love, sensibilities, sensitivities, self-esteem, ego, pride, opinion, belief, view, impression, intuition, instinct, estimation, guess, theory, hypothesis, thought, way of thinking, point of view, atmosphere, ambience, aura, air, mood, climate, character, overtone, undertone, tenor, spirit, quality, flavour, colour, aptitude, knack, flair, bent, talent, gift, skill, art, trick, faculty, ability, propensity, inclination, sensitive, warm, warm-hearted, tender, tender-hearted, caring, soft-hearted, sympathetic, compassionate, empathetic, responsive, receptive, intuitive, thoughtful
Antonyms: bad feeling, acrimony, animosity, animus, antagonism, antipathy, aversion, bitterness, detestation, disgust, dislike, disrelish, enmity, friction, grievances, grudges, hatred, hostility, loathing, malevolence, malice
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2451. First Thing
Matthew 6:25-34
Sermon
James Merritt
... to him jokingly that they would get an email from him at 11:30-12am and then a follow-up email at 3-3:30am in the morning. The man knew that he couldn’t keep going. Physically, his energy was being sucked down the drain of worry. Emotionally, his happiness was being blown away by the wind of worry. Spiritually, his joy was being burned up in the furnace of worry. Then literally, one day his worry basically dissipated. It wasn’t that he no longer cared, because not worrying doesn’t mean you quit caring ...
Sermon
James Merritt
... reported occur in the worship services of a church and these are related to previous physical disorders… Therefore the safest place for you to be at any time is in church. Come to church. It could save your life! There are also emotional benefits to joining a church and getting actively involved. You will not only be healthier. You will be happier. The Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company studied people who had joined a church, were actively involved, prayed, read their Bibles and had surrendered ...
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James Merritt
... baggage. Then there is cultural baggage. The government has been unfair to you. Or work baggage. You didn’t get the promotion you wanted, or a project you worked on for months was rejected, or maybe your boss simply doesn’t like you. And all of the emotions around these issues, from bitterness to anger to resentment to despair to unforgiveness, is a suitcase you carry with you each and every day of your life. In this series, we have dealt with the baggage of a bitter spirit. We said if you are going to ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... of small children, he says, “Bring them to me.” He says the same thing concerning those who are afflicted: “Bring them to me.” “Bring blind Bartimaeus,” he says. Bring the leper, the physically challenged, the person struggling with the demons of emotional distress. On one occasion his invitation was so compelling that four friends lowered a palsied man through the roof of a house. Jesus came with one purpose and desire‑‑to seek and to save the lost . . . to heal those who were hurting ...
Sermon
James Merritt
... look into something very keenly.” It would be like today watching an instant replay of a close call in a ball game. In order words, a husband is not influenced by what his wife says, but by what his wife shows. You know this. Men are visual. Women are more emotional. Women are moved by what they hear and men are moved by what they see. Go back to the honeymoon. Let’s face it. Didn’t most of us have the same experience? What did you wives do? You took your time in the bathroom. You got ready. You were ...
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... he does not do what his disciples want him to do either. He does not confront the Canaanite woman and “send her away.” He does not “conform” to the party line that his disciples are encouraging him to enforce. Jesus does not act on the emotional pleas of either the Canaanite woman or his own disciples. He does not follow either “camp” or “trend.” He continues to treat her as a subject, not as an object. When the Canaanite woman continues to engage Jesus in a faith driven conversation, when ...
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... your mission no matter how much of a martyr you may feel like. 3) Monitor constantly ... Nothing kills a mission faster than ruthless and incessant evaluation. Just as it can kill a relationship when someone tracks and traces every tiny tendril of their emotion, so the constant surveillance of whether what one is doing is a "success" or "failure" kills mission. 4) Micro­manage the mission . . . When you make the default position control and regulate rather than free and resource, you kill the mission. Over ...
2458. How to Forgive
Matthew 18:21-35
Sermon
King Duncan
... Each time I said those words another stone was removed from the wall of bitterness I had built, until, one day, I came to realize that the wall was no longer there.” (3) Forgiveness is possible. You do not have to be a slave to your emotions. Consider the case of a young man named Rodolfo. Life was difficult for Rodolfo and his family. His parents were good, hard‑working people. But one day when Rodolfo was eight years old, the seventeen‑year‑old son of their landlord walked into their house with ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... transformed, healed, and changed.” “Actually,” he continues, “nobody really believes that God wants everyone to stay exactly as they are. God loves serial killers and child molesters; God loves ruthless and arrogant businessmen; God loves manipulative mothers that damage their children’s emotions for life. But the point of God’s love is that he wants them to change. He hates what they’re doing and the effects it has on everyone else and on themselves too. Ultimately, if he’s a good God, he ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... character they were playing. Soon the word hypocrite came to denote anyone who wears one face in one situation and quite another face in another situation. Some of you have had unfortunate experiences with such persons. Maybe those experiences have caused you some emotional damage. Pastor Scott Harrell tells the story of a man named Roy. Roy was brought up in the church. Unfortunately, however, Roy’s family was a bizarre, legalistic church family that warped his life. His dad was a pillar of the church ...
Sermon
Timothy Cargal
... . That gift is always to be a challenge to act in such ways as to extend God’s grace to others. Even as we are busy driving back the physical darkness with all our decorations, we need to be busy driving back the spiritual, emotional, and social darkness from the lives of others. Doing so requires eager actions to accomplish good things and not simply season’s greetings for best wishes. Luke 2:1-20 The difficulties with correlating the various historical allusions in this gospel lesson with the records ...
2462. Odd Ducks in a Rubber-Ducky World
1 Thessalonians 4:13--5:11
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... disciples one day who weren’t being odd enough, “What do you more than others?” (Matthew 5:47). We live focused towards a future that the rest of the world longs for. We live with resurrection faith and hope, not monetary heap-it-up urges or emotional pile-it-higher-and-deeper surges. We live odd lives with odd beliefs and odd dreams, odd ducks in a rubber-ducky world. In Paul’s words to the first century’s first generation of the faithful in Thessalonia, he does not belittle their grieving over ...
2463. Come Home
Matthew 25:14-30
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... have when their “master” is home. Jesus’ story affirms that when the “master” finally does arrive, those who have been faithful are welcome into the “joy of the Lord.” In other words, it’s party time. The display of deep physiological emotions upon returning home is pervasive throughout nature. The the sandhill cranes “come home” every year, for example, they show their joy by dancing and singing and celebrating. They truly “enter the joy” of coming home. We all need to come “home ...
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... by sitting on their backsides. That is why, in Eastern Orthodox traditions, the 40 days of Advent is the occasion for a 40-day “Nativity Fast.” (http://www.antiochian.org/NativityFast) As we express our rejoicing, and live prayerfully, and act thankfully, we are emotion in motion in this world. As we experience Advent and await the miracle of Christmas we move about and change this world by our actions. In fact, in perhaps the most famous passage from Isaiah (40:31), waiting is directly tied to movement ...
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... every other weekend, just because. It is your sister, who drove you crazy and loved you always, no matter what. It is that one teacher who inspired you to study math, or science, or literature. It is that coach who both toughened you physically and taught you emotionally. Jesus is the only name that we can call upon to ask for singular, cellular changes in our life. “How Sweet the Name of Jesus Sounds.” Jesus is the only name that can change the course of our life story, the only one that can save the ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... . He was a little professionally troubled by this, so he went to the bishop and asked him what his secret was. What methods or teachings or counseling or therapy did he use which were so effective in helping people to improve their mental and emotional health? The bishop took the question very seriously and gave a typically blunt answer. “Well,” he said, “I just ask them questions until I figure out which commandment they are breaking, and then I tell them to stop it.” (5) Maybe he’s on ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... risking their lives in performing this act of love and honor. Certainly they were risking their reputations. That showed how much he meant to them. Indeed, he meant everything to them, and now to have to hurry through the burial preparations was salt in their own emotional wounds. It is significant that they laid him in a borrowed grave. Jesus said on one occasion, “Foxes have dens and birds have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head” (Luke 9:58). He owned no property on which to ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... out and touched this man with this repulsive disease. Mark tells us that immediately the man was healed. Don’t you imagine that the fact that Jesus reached out and touched him was part of the man’s healing? It was important that he be healed emotionally as well as physically, and touching can have wonderful healing powers with regard to the heart. The man with leprosy says to the Master, “If you are willing, you can make me clean.” Jesus reaches out his hand and touches the man. “I am willing ...
2469. Peacemaker
Luke 2:8-20
Sermon
James Merritt
... history and secular history you will know that the entire Middle East has been a boiling pot for fighting, violence, and war ever since the beginning of recorded history. For the last 64 years, every President of the United States has spent time, money, and incredible emotional energy trying to bring peace to this region of the world. We are no closer today than we were 64 years ago. I heard about a woman that rubbed a lamp and a genie popped out. She said, “Do I get three wishes?” He said, “Nope ...
Sermon
James Merritt
... us in this room hunger for three things. We hunger for security. We want financial security. We don’t want to have to be dependent on anyone else. We want physical security. We want to be healthy so we can take care of ourselves. We want emotional security. We want to love and be loved. We also hunger for significance. We want personal significance. We want to know that our life matters to ourselves. We want relational significance. We want to know that our life matters to someone else. Finally, we hunger ...
Sermon
James Merritt
... no locks, and doesn’t swing out or in. This door is a person named Jesus. I’ve told you repeatedly that people are constantly trying to find three doors in their life. They are trying to find the door to security (be it physical security, emotional security or financial security). People are looking for the door of significance. They want to know that their life counts, their life matters, and that their life is important to somebody. They are looking for the door of satisfaction. They want to be happy ...
Sermon
James Merritt
... have are pictures of the kids sleeping with their grandparents. The day came for Mom and Dad to leave and they purposely got up very, very, early in the morning, because not only did they not want to wake the kids, but also they knew the kids would be very emotional when they left. They were getting in their car to leave and somehow Jonathan woke up. When he saw my dad wasn’t in the bed he ran outside to the garage just as they were about to pull away and he began to scream at the top of his ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... family in over 20 years. There had been conflict. He had been hurt and decided to leave home and never return. More than 20 years later he had a change of heart knowing that he needed reconciliation with his family. He gathered up all his emotional strength and returned home. His mother and sisters, who had not had any word from him during the long period of separation and had on occasion even wondered whether he was dead, responded like the early followers of Jesus who first saw him after his resurrection ...
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James Merritt
... John 4:24 says, “God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.” (John 4:24, ESV) There are three parts to every human being: body, soul and spirit. With our body we have physical life. With our soul, we experience emotional life, but with our spirit we have spiritual life. We were created with a spiritual antenna. That is why animals cannot know God, love God, or worship God, because they don’t have that antenna. Animals have no sense of morality. Animals don’t consider ...
Sermon
James Merritt
... the person still refuses to listen then you have other people that confirm that not only have you done the right thing, but it is not your fault, but the person who is at fault still has fault. Bringing other people along brings both objectivity – they are not emotionally involved as you are and they bring accountability to both parties. What if that doesn’t work? “If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church. And if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and ...
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